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Güzellik<br />
<strong>Beauty</strong><br />
63<br />
third with exports of 1 billion 808 million dollars, rubber,<br />
rubber goods came in fourth with exports of 1 billion 363<br />
million dollars, and cosmetics and soap sub-sector came<br />
in fifth with exports of 1 billion 146 million dollars.<br />
Our exports continue to increase but in today’s<br />
environment when the global competition is getting<br />
fiercer every passing day, the value of high value-added<br />
production and unit kilogram value of exports should also<br />
be increased. This depends significantly on the strength<br />
of R&D and innovation. Accounting for about 33% of<br />
exports in the chemical industry, the plastics and plastic<br />
products sub-sector is a foreign-dependent sector on raw<br />
materials at 90%. The STAR Refinery, which was opened<br />
this year to operate in the field of petrochemistry, will<br />
support our industry in terms of chemical exports, but it is<br />
not enough. We need at least 4-5 more facilities operating<br />
in the field of petrochemistry. Moreover, construction of<br />
a plant with a capacity of 450,000 tons of polypropylene<br />
production per year will start in the Ceyhan petrochemical<br />
industry zone in <strong>2019</strong>. As these and similar high-volume<br />
facilities start to operate, our dependency on imports will<br />
decrease in the sub-sectors, which will in turn contribute<br />
positively to our exports.<br />
Also, technical obstacles for the introduction of drugs<br />
produced in <strong>Turkey</strong> to global markets have been lifted<br />
to a large extent thanks to the membership of Turkish<br />
Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (TİTCK) with<br />
the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme<br />
(PIC/S), which actually started on <strong>January</strong> 1, 2018, in the<br />
pharmaceutical industry, one of the fields offering the<br />
highest value-added products in the chemical industry.<br />
This is an important development for the increase of<br />
exports in the pharmaceutical industry. We, as İKMİB,<br />
follow these important developments related to our<br />
sectors and besides our efforts to inform our companies<br />
about such developments, we continue to carry out<br />
comprehensive activities as the practitioner of our Union<br />
while supporting all kinds of projects for increasing the<br />
exports that are made by the pharmaceutical and medical<br />
sectors to the world.<br />
In addition, we need to give importance to promotion and<br />
marketing activities for sustainable export growth. We,<br />
as İKMİB, support the activities that will increase the<br />
exports of our companies. In this context, we organized<br />
a total of 18 national and international trade and hosted<br />
buyer events, 10 exhibitions with domestic participation,<br />
6 projects for development of sectoral international<br />
competition (UR-GE), 6 sector trainings, 5 seminars and<br />
4 workshops in 2018. We will continue to support our<br />
exporters with might and main by means of 19 exhibitions<br />
with domestic participation, 19 sectoral trade delegation<br />
and 8 hosted buyer events that we plan to organize in<br />
<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
In 2018, we concluded the application procedures of 196<br />
member companies that met the conditions for obtaining<br />
green passports. In addition to the supports provided by<br />
TİM and Ministry of Trade, we offered 20% support for<br />
the member companies to benefit from e-commerce<br />
websites, namely Alibaba, Turkish Exporters, Kompass<br />
and Chemorbis. 1380 members benefited from this<br />
support. We cooperated with the NGOs, and in <strong>2019</strong><br />
we will perform activities to increase the export of our<br />
sectors more extensively. We are pleased that our<br />
government has supported the promises we made<br />
during the election process with the idea that they are<br />
important for our sector. As İKMİB, we are working hard<br />
to improve the sector and exports. In order to increase<br />
our exports and reach the 2023 targets, we need to guide<br />
our SMEs to export more. In this regard, in <strong>2019</strong> we will<br />
focus on expansion of e-commerce network, facilitating<br />
the access of exporters to financing, decreasing the limit<br />
for green passport to 500 thousand dollars in the first<br />
stage, creating container lines, digital transformation,<br />
indigenization in chemical industry, ensuring more fair<br />
share and efficient use of the funds of <strong>Turkey</strong> Promotion<br />
Group (TTG), and expansion of the network of Turkish<br />
Trade Centers. With the TTG projects, we aim to promote<br />
our country and our exports more effectively.<br />
In particular, e-commerce is among the second 100-day<br />
targets of the Ministry of Trade as the “electronic export<br />
platform”. We will work closely with our government<br />
in this field in order to keep up with the digital<br />
transformation in the global trade, make the processes<br />
faster and contribute to our country’s exports to reach<br />
the targets of 2023. In order to achieve the target export<br />
volume in <strong>2019</strong>, we convey our requests to and we hold<br />
talks with the Ministry of Trade to improve the green<br />
passport limit and duration, increase the participation<br />
rates of exhibitors and support our industrialist in<br />
establishing a petrochemical plant. Our task is to work<br />
harder to meet our national target of 200 billion dollar as<br />
announced by the President. Accordingly, we will work<br />
hard to exceed the $20 billion level by increasing our<br />
sector exports by 15 percent in <strong>2019</strong>.
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